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I have been cleaning up users permissions on one of my servers and I have came across a strange user name e.g.. S-1-5-21-220523388-7647337<wbr />03-6824433<wbr />31-1597, in &nbsp;the properties \security tab and I was wondering if there is any way of translating this username back to the original so that i can see the username e.g. bob.smith?<br />
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I have been cleaning up users permissions on one of my servers and I have came across a strange user name e.g.. S-1-5-21-220523388-764733703-682443331-1597, in  the properties \security tab and I was wondering if there is any way of translating this username back to the original so that i can see the username e.g. bob.smith?

thanks

Properties of directories

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).